[fluid-dev] Premature voice cutoff

[Josh Green]

I finally tracked down whats causing intermittent voice cutoff problems
with FluidSynth. It has to do with the "loop until release" mode of
instruments (an option that loops the sample until key release, apon
which it will continue to play the rest of the sample). This mode is not
yet supported by FluidSynth but instead it results in unpredictable
voice cutoff in the release stage. I put a hack into Swami to not send
this flag but I have not done anything with FluidSynth yet. A quick work
around would be to change any "loop till release" instruments to just
"loop" mode at load time, but a proper fix would be to actually
implement the functionality. I'll try and fix this soon, just wanted to
notify the list (also to motivate me a little :) Also, of note is that I
released a new version of Swami (http://swami.sourceforge.net) which is
just a handful of bug fixes and some portability stuff (theoretically it
should be possible to get it working on Mac OS X). I was never able to
get my dlopen'd plugins to work right with the mingw32 port though, if
anyone knows how to make a dll import library out of a program to link
plugins against, I could use some help. Cheers.
        Josh Green